I understand that we all have different needs, but personally, I get frustrated from the eternal incremental upgrades.This thread again reminded me to go out and shoot instead of spending all day chasing dreams

Somewhere in my mind I have the feeling Canon might not be doing the 0.18 micron process at all, but instead going directly to the next one (0.12, 0.09 or 0.065 maybe?), and that is why they have such problems in getting it to roll.

It makes sense doing something like that when you have your own factories and do not want to upgrade them too often. Going to 0.18, just to do it all over again in 2 years? I don't think so. But, leapfrogging the competition and take them by surprise, and in the same time prolonging the active time of the process platform? Yes, I think I'll vote for that.

Even better. Oh, what will a 5D4 be like...na forget it. The 5D3 is still way too much camera for me But as I my current FF lens line up contains about all the ones I will ever need for my type of photography it is quite attractive to save up for whatever may be up next in the 5D series. I will not early adopt it next time, cause the 5D3 is really amazing. But if let's say, ISO 3200 really turn out to be the new ISO 400 in a crop cam like the 7DII, then I do not dare to imagine what the new ISO 51200 will look like on the next 5D...can you?

I guess it is still selling well. I suspect they will not introduce replacement till the sales do not drop considerably. I doubt that delay is a case of improving the model. Three years is long enough for a company like Canon to design a replacement.

I personally am not going to (most likely) ever buy a crop sensor camera again so this delay does not bother me.

This rumor proves the contrary - Canon will release the 70d this year with the updated 18mp sensor (i.e. with af pixels for lv, better noise pattern, less banding) and throw everything they have at it like gps & wifi, improved af/fps (but below current 7d).

But even Canon seems to think that they cannot get away with a 7d2 w/o significant sensor improvement, and since they don't have this sensor atm (proof: 6d) they'll delay another year.

Somewhere in my mind I have the feeling Canon might not be doing the 0.18 micron process at all, but instead going directly to the next one (0.12, 0.09 or 0.065 maybe?), and that is why they have such problems in getting it to roll.

It makes sense doing something like that when you have your own factories and do not want to upgrade them too often. Going to 0.18, just to do it all over again in 2 years? I don't think so. But, leapfrogging the competition and take them by surprise, and in the same time prolonging the active time of the process platform? Yes, I think I'll vote for that.

Sounds reasonable to me.... Even if the next sensor is at .18 microns, it would still make sense to be replacing the current machines with those capable of even finer resolution so the next couple of improvements will require a minimum of retooling.

Having used 7D for about 3 years (sold to upgrade to 5D MK III, last year) and now using the D7100 (for the past 3 days) I can say that this review is very accurate ... despite D7100 the 7D is still an awesome camera in its own right.